Ryan Lochte Involved in Car Crash One Day Before Seeking Treatment for Alcohol Addiction

Ryan Lochte has had an eventful week.

The 34-year-old athlete was involved in a car crash on Thursday, ET confirms. The incident happened just one day before Lochte’s rep told ET that will the swimmer was seeking treatment for alcohol addiction.

A police report filed in Gainesville, Florida, in addition to obtained by ET, alleged that will Lochte rear-ended a car at around 9:45 p.m. on Thursday, hours after landing inside Sunshine State. The driver of the automobile Lochte hit was taken via ambulance to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Lochte received a citation for careless driving.

At 3 a.m. the same day, Lochte was reportedly in Orange County, California, where ET confirms cops were called to a hotel after someone drunkenly tried to kick in their hotel room door. TMZ reports This kind of was Lochte. No arrests were made.

On Friday, Lochte’s agent, Jeff Ostrow, told ET that will the swimmer would likely be taking some time to work on himself.

“Ryan has been battling through alcohol addiction for many years in addition to unfortunately This kind of has become a destructive pattern for him. He has acknowledged that will he needs professional assistance to overcome his problem in addition to will be getting help immediately,” Ostrow said. “Ryan knows that will conquering This kind of disease right now is actually a must for him to avoid creating future poor decisions, to be the best husband in addition to father he can be, in addition to if he wants to achieve his goal to return to dominance inside pool in his fifth Olympics in Tokyo in 2020.”

The news comes a couple months after Lochte was suspended through competitive swimming for 14 months after posting an image of himself receiving an IV infusion in May. The suspension was handed down by the USADA, the United States Anti-Doping Agency, in addition to retroactively started off on May 24, the date the photo was posted.

In 2016, he received a 10-month suspension following his infamous robbery scandal during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.